Vestries [ Religious Belief ]
… Résumé With roots stretching back to the Middle Ages, more or less institutionalized parish bodies elected a range of officials, organized church building / maintenance, levied rates from inhabitants and dealt … were in turn supervised by annual assemblies of householders resident within the parochial boundaries as well as smaller bodies known as ‘masters’, ‘auditors’ or ‘vestries’. 1 In early modern England, where parishes acquired official local … 15 15 . The Parish: A Satire, ed. Eric Robinson (Harmondsworth: Viking, 1985), p. 63. Beyond England Similar parish bodies operated in other regional contexts. In and around Dublin, Anglican vestries ran two parallel strands: Protestants …
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